Toni Basil

Steps come up all the time, but not dances.

Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff.

Start dancing immediately. Run to the closest dance studio, and study the style of dance of the music you love. If you love hip-hop music, go to a hip-hop class. If you love salsa, take a salsa class. It will become infectious and you'll keep going back.

I've always been a dancer, and I will always be a dancer.

Dance has been my lover, my doctor. I know I have my health because of this.

There's nothing better than being head cheerleader, let me tell you.

I don't know how people get into show business if their family's not in it.

I come from a very vaudevillian family.

I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.

Mickey' is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a one-hit wonder.

I don't mind having a one-hit wonder as long as I have a career in show business, which has been fabulous.

I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.

I grew up thinking of show business as a business.

I'm surprised by the success of anything I do, but it's gratifying when the public approves.

You street-dance in a club, you're performing. Whether anybody sees me is a whole other thing. But it doesn't matter, because it fills my void.

I have an inspired career other than just singing.

On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.

I did 'Viva Las Vegas' with Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. By standing in for Ann-Margret for a week, I learned the feeling of being a star in a musical number.

I don't think my story is an unusual story for a lot of music performers. But I think that since 1982, worldwide, I have probably seen less than 3,000 American dollars in royalties.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.